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June 30, 2022
Small Businesses Oppose New York City’s Just Cause Law
- Targeted employers may not discharge or reduce an employee’s hours by more than 15% “except for just cause or for a bona fide economic reason;”
- Targeted employers must establish “progressive discipline policies” providing a “graduated range of reasonable responses” to a fast-food employee’s failure to satisfactorily perform job duties;
- And employees may challenge their discharge in a range of fora (including compelled private arbitration) and targeted employers “bear the burden of providing just cause or a bona fide economic reason.”
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